The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers: Abstracts of Records in the Local and General Archives of Virginia, Volumes 1-4 - Edward Pleasants Valentine. "The abstracts of wills, deeds and court orders contained in the volume(s) published as The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers are from the files of family papers bequeathed to The Valentine Museum by the late Edward Pleasants Valentine, of Richmond, Virginia…Mr. Valentine…became intensely interested in local and family history, and with a view towards writing a history of his own family began collecting data from the local and general archives of Virginia. This family history was to include accounts of all families whose blood mingled in his veins." After his death, Clayton Torrence was elected by the Board of Trustees of The Valentine Museum to complete his research and ready his manuscript for publication. The families included in this publication are Allen, Bacon, Ballard, Batchelder, Blouet, Brassieur (Brashear), Cary, Crenshaw, Dabney, Exum, Ferris, Fontaine, Gray, Hardy, Isham (Henrico County), Jordan, Langston, Lyddall, Mann, Mosby, Palmer, Pasteur, Pleasants, Povall, Randolph, Satterwhite, Scott, Smith (the family of Francis Smith of Hanover County), Valentine, Waddy, Watts, Winston, Womack, and Woodson. In addition to the abstracts, this volume includes genealogical tables, a bibliographical note, an everyname index and a subject index.